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Certificate of embankment work for Kronion son of Kronion TM 12416Tebtynis (Arsinoites)26. Mai 139

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A certificate recording that Kronion son of Kronion, of Tebtynis, completed his five days of compulsory labour on the dikes and embankments. It dates to the second year of Antoninus Pius, AD 139, in the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

Year two of Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius. Worked on the embankment works of the same year 2, from Pachon 2[7] to Pauni 1, [...] of Tebtynis, Kronion son of Kronion, grandson of Cheos (?), his mother being Thenapynchis. [...] I have signed.

Such certificates attested the annual five-day corvée on dikes and canals required of adult men in Roman Egypt. The opening day (Pachon 27) is partly restored and corresponds to the HGV date.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Certificato di lavoro alle dighe). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

DDbDP-text Full record →

p.mil.vogl.4.228

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 26. Mai 139 · Tebtynis (Arsinoites)

ἔτους δευτέρου Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Τίτου Αἰλίου Ἁδριανοῦ Ἀντωνείνου Σεβαστοῦ Εὐσεβοῦς εἴργασται ὑπὲρ χωματικῶνἔργων τοῦ αὐτοῦ β ἔτους ἀπὸ Παχὼν βζ ἕως Παῦνι α […]……[…]…Τεβτύνεως Κρονίων Κρονίωνος τοῦ Χεῶτος μητρὸς Θεναπύγχεως. …… σεσημείωμαι.